Breaking Free: Wellness Online: A set of strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and mindfulness for people who are questioning their relationship or experiencing difficulties with alcohol or drugs. As well as learning new coping skills, client can opt to gain additional support from peers by accessing virtual meetings.

Community Addictions Peer Support Association (CAPSA): All People All Pathways, regular peer group meetings to provide a safe and aware environment for those people questioning their relationship with substances.

haveTHATtalk: The “have THAT talk” series was developed to raise awareness about the importance of mental health in all areas of our lives. Everyone can take action to promote mental health where we live, work and play. Check out these videos and activity guides to learn how you can take action to reduce stigma, increase support, and encourage people to get help sooner.

Mental Health Online: Provides free comprehensive and effective online services and programs. Based in Australia, services can help you understand and address your needs through self-guided options including self-assessment and self-help, and are available to users outside of Australia.

Parenting in Ottawa: A website dedicated to health information and resources for Parents, with specific and tailored health resources from becoming a parent and pregnancy to infancy, childhood and youth/young adulthood.

Psychology Tools: Therapy resources such as CBT worksheets, handouts and audio packs as well as a self-help section with problem areas and related tasks.

SMART Recovery: Self-management and recovery training through virtual mutual-support groups, readings, and self-led online program.

Taking Control of Mood, Taking Control of Stress, Taking Control of Alcohol, and Resilience: Self-directed e-courses with self-guided workbooks.

The Link Ottawa: OPH website tailored for youth and young adults for sharing information and resources on various health topics including sexual health, mental health, substance use, and physical activity. The Link partners with youth organizations to run health campaigns on various topics, including mental health and substance use.  

Wellness Together Canada: Online resources, tools, apps and connection to trained volunteers and qualified mental health professionals. Produced by Kids Help Phone, Homewood Health and Stepped Care Solutions; funded by Health Canada.

Counselling Connect: Provides quick access to a free phone or video counselling session.

Rapid Access Addiction Medicine (RAAM) Clinic: offers services for people who may have concerns about their alcohol and/or opioid use. No referral needed. Go to theroyal.accessRAAM.ca or call 1 (613) 722-6521 ext. 6508 to find out if it is right for you. 

The Walk-In Counselling Clinic provides immediate counselling services to individuals, couples, and families. The walk-in sessions are free to all members of the community, with no restrictions based on age or location/address and no need for an appointment. Offering services in English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Somali, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Virtual Addiction Counselling: Virtual appointment with an addictions counsellor.

Youth Wellness Hubs: serving local youth as a fully integrated one-stop-shop, where youth between the ages of 12 and 25 can address all of their health and wellness needs. Help is available for mental health and addictions. Primary care services are immediately available, along with many more community and social services. The hub also includes peer services and system navigation services, all delivered in a timely and integrated manner from one central hub. No appointment is required.

Alcoholics Anonymous: A fellowship of individuals who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.

Community Addictions Peer Support Association (CAPSA): All People All Pathways, regular peer group meetings to provide a safe and aware environment for those people questioning their relationship with substances.

Families for Addiction Recovery (FAR): FAR is a national charity founded by parents of children who have struggled with addictions from their teens. Our goal is long term recovery for those with addictions and their families. We offer parent-to-parent support for families struggling with addictions.

Narcotics Anonymous: A community-based organization where members learn from one another how to recover from the effects of addictions.

Ottawa Network for Borderline Personality Disorder (ON-BPD): The Family Connections group offered through ON-BPD is a free 12 week program designed to provide the adult family members, partners, or friends of individuals with emotion regulation issues or borderline personality disorder with knowledge and skills for their own well being and for better understanding their loved one

Parent’s Lifelines of Eastern Ontario (PLEO): A non-profit family support organization for parents and caregivers whose children to age 24 are dealing with mental health and/or addiction challenges.

Psychiatric Survivors of Ottawa: Community of peers using lived experiences with the mental health system to support one another in moving towards their full potential.

SMART Recovery: A not-for-profit organization with a self-help program for people having difficulties with substance use health.

Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction & Mental Health Commission of Canada: Coping with anxiety, stress and substance use health during COVID-19.

Coping with a substance use disorder: Information from the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre.

Coping with COVID-19: Video town hall discussions, coping tools, articles and other resources.

COVID-19 & Substance Use: Information for people seeking support services from the Canadian Centre on Substance Use Health and Addictions.

Mental Health and COVID-19:  The COVID-19 situation can be very stressful. It is really important to take care of our mental health during challenging times like this. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ottawa Public Health (OPH) curated a list of Mental Health and Substance Use Service and Resources.

Mental Health Commission of Canada: COVID-19 resources page.

Mental Health Resources for Diverse Populations:  Visit the multilingualweb page for videos and information on mental health tailored to support diversecommunities during COVID-19. 

Resources for Mentally Healthy Workplaces:  This is an unprecedented time ofchange for all of us. Some workplaces are needing to drastically adapt the waythey do business, while others have had to close temporarily. Even though thecurrent situation is new, you can still use proven mental health resources andstrategies to support your employees. 

Wellness Together Canada: Online resources, tools, apps and connection to trained volunteers and qualified mental health professionals. Produced by Kids Help Phone, Homewood Health and Stepped Care Solutions; funded by Health Canada.

Your Health Matters: Information about managing during COVID-19 pandemic from Sunnybrook experts.

Frontline Wellness: COVID Frontline Wellness offers confidential support for health care workers through quick access to a trained mental health professional. They will connect with you and listen. You can share your experiences, receive support, engage in problem-solving, and receive help connecting to other resources or services if needed.

Anxiety Canada: Online self-directed course for managing anxiety with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

Downloadable resources: Free CBT worksheets, and low cost CBT and self-help audio and video recordings.

Wellness Together Canada: Online resources, tools, apps and connection to trained volunteers and qualified mental health professionals. Produced by Kids Help Phone, Homewood Health and Stepped Care Solutions; funded by Health Canada.

Breaking Free: Wellness App: A set of strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and mindfulness for people who are questioning their relationship or experiencing difficulties with alcohol or drugs. As well as learning new coping skills, client can opt to gain additional support from peers by accessing virtual meetings. (iOS or Android).

CBT-I Coach: for people who are engaged inCognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia with a health provider, or who haveexperienced symptoms of insomnia and would like to improve their sleep habits.(iOS or Android)

MindShift™ CBT App: Strategies based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help you learn to relax and be mindful, develop more effective ways of thinking, and use active steps to take charge of your anxiety.

Nobu: A Mental Health App - A comprehensive wellness app that utilizes strategies and tools shown to effectively manage mental health concerns.

PTSD Coach Canada: PTSD Coach Canada is a tool to help manage the symptomsassociated with PTSD, it is not intended as a replacement for professionalcare. This mobile app provides information and self-help tools based on currentresearch. (iOS or Android).

Saying When App: Created by the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health for quitting or cutting down on drinking alcohol (iOS or Android).

7 Minute Workout: Daily HIIT exercises at home with no equipment. 12 high intensity bodyweight exercises. 30 seconds per exercise, 10 seconds rest betweenexercises. (iOS Android).

FitOn app: Stay active, reducestress, and feel good with unlimited access to free workouts and meditations. (iOS or Android).

Health Care Connect: Refers Ontarians who don't have a physician to a family health care provider who may be accepting new patients.

MoodGym: interactive self-help book whichhelps you to learn and practise skills which can help to prevent and managesymptoms of depression and anxiety. ($).

TruReach – Mental Wellness: Provides5-minute CBT lessons that teach skills to help deal with depression and anxiety.( Android only at this time).

Addiction and Mental Health Services Kingston Frontenac Lennox Addington: Coordinated Access offers a single point of entry for services across Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox or Addington for those seeking information and support for mental health and addiction concerns.

Connex Ontario: Provides free and confidential health services information for people experiencing substance use and/or mental health problems.

Around the Rainbow: Around the Rainbow provides education, counselling and support services to 2SLGBTQI+ families and individuals. Our objective is always to improve 2SLGBTQI+ inclusion in all environments.

Centretown Community Health Centre 2SLGBTQIA+ Programs and Services: Welcome 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Nonbinary, plus!) community members! Explore the free programs and services developed for the community, by the community. Programs and services offered by 2SLGBTQIA+ staff and community partners.

MAX Ottawa: MAX supports the health and wellness of 2SGBTQ+ folx in the Champlain LHIN. This includes in-house programs (support groups, harm reduction supplies, social opportunities, etc.) as well as information and referral for accessing queer-specific/queer-competent supports.